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Newsmakers

Spectrum Volume 17 Issue 22 - March 2, 1995

Virginia Tech faculty and staff members and students
are often the subject of significant national and statewide news coverage. To
better inform the university community about these accomplishments, the Office
of University Relations has compiled this monthly report. The report excludes
coverage in the Roanoke news-media market. For more information about the
articles mentioned, call Nancy Templeman, university public relations
specialist, at 1-5915, or contact your college public relations office.

Remedy magazine (January/February): The special reports section
included an item on the importance of zinc in the diets of people over 50 that
quoted Eleanor Schlenker of human nutrition and foods.

WWBT-TV (Richmond) (Jan. 16): The station marked Lee-Jackson-King Day with
a story on General Stonewall Jackson that featured comments from Alumni
Distinguished Professor James I. Robertson, who is writing a biography
of the Civil War general.

The Christian Science Monitor (Jan. 22): A story quoted Matt
McAllister, a communications professor, on the significance of National
Geographic specials on television.

The Catholic Virginian (Jan. 30): The Virginia Tech Center for
Gerontology's research and report on case management was featured in a
story of how community support can help people with disabilities remain at home
instead of going to a nursing home.

ABC Radio (Feb. 3): Nicholas Tideman of economics was interviewed by
telephone for a news segment on the minimum wage.

The Washington Post (Feb. 4): A front-page story on the fact that
children are staying up later quoted Jay Mancini of family and child
development on why parents let this happen.

The Christian Science Monitor (Feb. 1): An opinion article by associate
editor Ruth Walker quoted Edward Spiezio of political science on
Americans' opinions on foreign policy and the ethnic clashes in various parts
of the world.

Richmond Times-Dispatch (Feb. 5): A feature article in the "Planning
for Retirement" section extensively quoted Connie Y. Kratzer, family
finance specialist for Virginia Cooperative Extension, on the need for early
planning, what documents to keep, and how to keep them.

Voice of America (Feb. 7): The radio service carried a live interview with
civil engineering professor James Mitchell in Kobe, Japan, where he and
a National Science Foundation team of engineers were investigating ground,
foundation, and structural problems that contributed to the damage caused by
the January earthquake there.

Newsweek (Feb. 13): Marshall Fishwick of communications studies and
humanities is quoted in an article about coffeehouses.